Lavarion
09-27-2010, 06:22 PM
Forbidden darkness I: Wrath of the Black Emerald Dragon
Once in a small village there lived nobody for a thousand years. “Hurry-up” called Dustin the eldest with brown eyes who was wearing a vest made of woven leather straps over a gray sweatshirt and light brown shoes. “Remind me again why we came here” complained Thrash Master Guardian the Tenth he was the middle brother who wore a black headband with the ends of it lofting down he left side of his head. His hair was black and short with a few bushels of hair going over his headband; he had deep brown eyes which were almost black, a white tee shirt, black sweatpants, and big black combat boots. “Because we are going to explore our ancestry,” explained Camren”. The youngest brother who had big bushy brown hair with brown eyes to match, he wore a white long sleeved shirt with gray pants and white shoes. “Now Thrash, remind me why it is I have to carry all of our stuff” asked Camren. “Because you are the youngest, you are 13 I am 16 and Dustin…” “Yes Dustin is 22, that’s the thousandth time you have said that” interrupted Camren. “Will you two stop bickering?” ordered Dustin. “My apologies oh great navigator” Thrash said sarcastically. “How much longer until we get there anyway?” he continued “It should be just over this next” Dustin paused “whoa”.
“What, what’s so” Camren looked around Dustin and paused “whoa”. Thrash looked around and saw a village completely destroyed and covered in ash. “Well that’s why they call them ruins now isn’t it brothers” Thrash Said “Thrash you just don’t understand, Dustin what happened here?” asked Camren. “Experts believe that this village was attacked by raiders and burned to the ground. The villagers attempted to rebuild but due to overexposure to ash they fled and built our hometown,” Explained Dustin. “Interesting” said Camren clutching his chin with thumb and index finger. “Ok, boring history time is over, exploring time is now.” Thrash began to walk to a building. “This one is still standing,” said Thrash as his brothers caught up to him while he approached the doors to the large building. Thrash opened the double doors, and all three of them grabbed their faces “oh man” yelled Camren “nasty!” shouted Dustin “ that is rank” exclaimed Thrash. The three of them darted away and began breathing heavily. “Sweet, sweet air” said Thrash. “Thousand year old cow patties” said Camren “let’s agree to stay away from there” said Dustin beginning to breathe normally again. “Well let’s move on,” said Thrash as he began to walk towards another building and started sorting through the ashes. “I found something! And look it has my name on it” said Thrash holding up a few pages roughly bound together with the title Thrash, Master Guardian. Dustin walked over and began skimming through it, and after a couple minuets he said “it’s a poorly written short story set a thousand years about a dragon who is defeated surprisingly, by Thrash.”
“Well I don’t remember ever killing a dragon, and I’m not a thousand years old either.” Thrash said crossing his arms. “Easy” said Camren “the Thrash in this story is simply our ancestor. Your full name is Thrash M. Guardian the tenth, correct?” “Yeah” responded Thrash “so that means it was our our great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather killed a dragon.” Said Dustin “Yes and gained the title of Master Guardian”. Dustin said “so that’s why our last name is Guardian” said Camren. “And my middle name is Master” Thrash said excited “do you think the story is true?” asked Thrash. “It’s possible, dragons may be extinct now but they could have existed back then” said Camren. “Dustin what happened to the dragon’s body, I might be able to find some remains or something.” Thrash asked “well it’s kind of hard to read due to the ash but it looks like he killed it in a cave on the side of a cliff.” You mean that enormous mountain; past the dense forest? I don’t think its safe Thrash. Said Camren “C’mon” said Thrash as Dustin followed “wait you guys, argh well I suppose if I let my meathead of a brother have his fun he may actually find the dragon’s body, a great scientific discovery to find intact dragon remains,” said Camren to himself, as he and followed Thrash and Dustin to the tree line.
“This should take care of anything that might come our way,” he said looking at his newly acquired weapon. Thrash began walking through the forest holding the branch in a defensive position. After a while of walking they come to the large cliff “well let’s do this” said Thrash “what, I’m not climbing that, it’s way too high” said Camren crossing his arms. “Camren don’t you want to be a scientist some day?” asked Dustin “yes I do but what do but what dose climbing have to anything to do with that?” “Scientists must take risks for the sake of science” “yeah but… no I'm still not going to climb the cliff, there is no logical way someone of my stature could make it up that high.” Camren said stubbornly, Thrash lifted Camren onto his back and said “whatever you do don’t let go, I do not want to have to explain this to mom and dad, also here hold my weapon” Thrash said as he handed his stick to Camren and they began the long climb up the mountain. “My arms are tired” Camren said “don’t let go,” barked Thrash. They reached an opening in the mountain and Camren collapsed on the floor. Dustin leaned against a wall catching his breath. Thrash just stood and began looking around “now let’s find that dragon,” he said with excitement. “Alright I’m good now,” said Dustin as they ventured deeper and deeper into the cave. “It’s getting dark, hand me a flashlight”. Said Thrash, Camren took off his pack and began feeling around for a flashlight “ah ha, oh wait no that’s a can of soda” said Camren,” “oh toss that over here,” said Thrash “I can’t see you, oh wait here is the flash light.” Camren turned on the flashlight and tossed it and the can of soda to Thrash. Thrash opened it and began drinking until it was empty. Thrash than threw the can in the air and hit it with his stick towards the entrance and let out a belch that echoed through the entire cave. “Well that was rather disturbing.” Said Dustin “why don’t you let me hold the flashlight?” he continued. “Ok” said Camren as he tossed the flashlight to Dustin. They resumed walking until they came to a large black statue of a dragon with a sword in its chest, it seemed to be made out of a strange black gem and towered to approximately 40 feet
“Whoa, look at the size of that thing.” said Thrash “I wonder who built it, and why here” said Camren. “Nobody built it, this is the dragon. From what I can tell the story says Thrash killed the dragon and than it turned,” said Dustin. “What do you mean by turned?” asked Thrash. “I didn’t get it either at first but now I understand, the dragon turned to a statue made of this strange black gem.” Said Dustin putting his hand on the dragon “onyx?” suggested Camren examining the statue. “No not onyx their emeralds, black emeralds” said Dustin. “I thought emeralds were green” said Thrash “yes these are emeralds, normally they are emerald colored Thrash but for some reason they are black. Though there is no mistaking it these are emeralds, and another thing these emeralds are surprisingly dense, in fact they are probably harder than diamonds!” Camren explained “incredible” said Dustin “so diamonds are not the strongest natural substance after all it’s these strange emeralds.” “Hey check this out” Thrash said standing next to the sword in the dragon. Thrash clutched the handle of the sword and pulled as hard as he could. The sword budged a little, he put his foot on the dragon and the sword slowly slid out knocking Thrash on his back when the tip was released. The sword was twice as long as Thrash expected, from handle to tip it reached about six feet and the blade was a foot wide of dense black metal. “Wow” Thrash said gleaming at the sword. He lifted it high above his head and brought it down on a stone, cutting it clean in half. “This is some sharp blade,” he said as he cut two slits in the back of his shirt and held it on his back. “This will have to work for now until I can get a sheath to match this bad boy.” Thrash said. He heard a sound and turned to see what it was. He saw only the statue, but to his astonishment it began to move! It turned around and blew fire at the three brothers. Thrash and Dustin jumped behind a column to avoid the flames. Camren stood like a deer in the headlights and took the full force of the blast. Thrash gasped but Dustin held him down and said, “Quiet or we’ll be next.” The dragon let out an enormous roar and flew out of the cave. Thrash got up and said “I swear dragon I will put this sword back in your heart and avenge my little brother”.
“Whoa, whoa you can’t just go after the dragon like that, he would kill you without even trying.” “Well I have to do something; I pulled the sword out so it is my duty to put it back. Plus we can’t let him get away with barbequing our beloved brother. And if we can’t go after him like this, than what do you suggest we do? We can’t let that thing go free” said Thrash. “I have heard legends of a secret order that might help us, the order of the Forbidden Darkness,” Said Dustin. “We can’t go to the Forbidden Darkness, it’s forbidden!” Thrash said shouting a bit and his voice echoed in the cave “I don’t see any other options” Dustin rebutted “fine then but do you even know where to find them?” asked Thrash “they are fabled to be on the top of a very large mountain. But the question is where do we find this mountain” said Dustin “this mountain seems pretty tall, I mean it took us like an hour to climb about half way,” Said Thrash. “Yeah that would make a lot of sense, this is definitely the biggest mountain I have ever seen,” Said Dustin. They walked out of the cave and began the long climb up the mountain.
Eventually they passed the clouds where there was a chill in the air, the sun to set as they began to see the top. It grew colder and colder until their skin became numb, but they continued up the mountain with only warm memories of their brother and the burning hatred for the Black Emerald Dragon keeping them going. After a grueling climb they reached the snowy peak of the mountain. “We should rest,” said Dustin breathing heavily. “No, we have to keep going and avenge Camren” Thrash said with a huff, he began walking but collapsed in the snow.
Once in a small village there lived nobody for a thousand years. “Hurry-up” called Dustin the eldest with brown eyes who was wearing a vest made of woven leather straps over a gray sweatshirt and light brown shoes. “Remind me again why we came here” complained Thrash Master Guardian the Tenth he was the middle brother who wore a black headband with the ends of it lofting down he left side of his head. His hair was black and short with a few bushels of hair going over his headband; he had deep brown eyes which were almost black, a white tee shirt, black sweatpants, and big black combat boots. “Because we are going to explore our ancestry,” explained Camren”. The youngest brother who had big bushy brown hair with brown eyes to match, he wore a white long sleeved shirt with gray pants and white shoes. “Now Thrash, remind me why it is I have to carry all of our stuff” asked Camren. “Because you are the youngest, you are 13 I am 16 and Dustin…” “Yes Dustin is 22, that’s the thousandth time you have said that” interrupted Camren. “Will you two stop bickering?” ordered Dustin. “My apologies oh great navigator” Thrash said sarcastically. “How much longer until we get there anyway?” he continued “It should be just over this next” Dustin paused “whoa”.
“What, what’s so” Camren looked around Dustin and paused “whoa”. Thrash looked around and saw a village completely destroyed and covered in ash. “Well that’s why they call them ruins now isn’t it brothers” Thrash Said “Thrash you just don’t understand, Dustin what happened here?” asked Camren. “Experts believe that this village was attacked by raiders and burned to the ground. The villagers attempted to rebuild but due to overexposure to ash they fled and built our hometown,” Explained Dustin. “Interesting” said Camren clutching his chin with thumb and index finger. “Ok, boring history time is over, exploring time is now.” Thrash began to walk to a building. “This one is still standing,” said Thrash as his brothers caught up to him while he approached the doors to the large building. Thrash opened the double doors, and all three of them grabbed their faces “oh man” yelled Camren “nasty!” shouted Dustin “ that is rank” exclaimed Thrash. The three of them darted away and began breathing heavily. “Sweet, sweet air” said Thrash. “Thousand year old cow patties” said Camren “let’s agree to stay away from there” said Dustin beginning to breathe normally again. “Well let’s move on,” said Thrash as he began to walk towards another building and started sorting through the ashes. “I found something! And look it has my name on it” said Thrash holding up a few pages roughly bound together with the title Thrash, Master Guardian. Dustin walked over and began skimming through it, and after a couple minuets he said “it’s a poorly written short story set a thousand years about a dragon who is defeated surprisingly, by Thrash.”
“Well I don’t remember ever killing a dragon, and I’m not a thousand years old either.” Thrash said crossing his arms. “Easy” said Camren “the Thrash in this story is simply our ancestor. Your full name is Thrash M. Guardian the tenth, correct?” “Yeah” responded Thrash “so that means it was our our great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather killed a dragon.” Said Dustin “Yes and gained the title of Master Guardian”. Dustin said “so that’s why our last name is Guardian” said Camren. “And my middle name is Master” Thrash said excited “do you think the story is true?” asked Thrash. “It’s possible, dragons may be extinct now but they could have existed back then” said Camren. “Dustin what happened to the dragon’s body, I might be able to find some remains or something.” Thrash asked “well it’s kind of hard to read due to the ash but it looks like he killed it in a cave on the side of a cliff.” You mean that enormous mountain; past the dense forest? I don’t think its safe Thrash. Said Camren “C’mon” said Thrash as Dustin followed “wait you guys, argh well I suppose if I let my meathead of a brother have his fun he may actually find the dragon’s body, a great scientific discovery to find intact dragon remains,” said Camren to himself, as he and followed Thrash and Dustin to the tree line.
“This should take care of anything that might come our way,” he said looking at his newly acquired weapon. Thrash began walking through the forest holding the branch in a defensive position. After a while of walking they come to the large cliff “well let’s do this” said Thrash “what, I’m not climbing that, it’s way too high” said Camren crossing his arms. “Camren don’t you want to be a scientist some day?” asked Dustin “yes I do but what do but what dose climbing have to anything to do with that?” “Scientists must take risks for the sake of science” “yeah but… no I'm still not going to climb the cliff, there is no logical way someone of my stature could make it up that high.” Camren said stubbornly, Thrash lifted Camren onto his back and said “whatever you do don’t let go, I do not want to have to explain this to mom and dad, also here hold my weapon” Thrash said as he handed his stick to Camren and they began the long climb up the mountain. “My arms are tired” Camren said “don’t let go,” barked Thrash. They reached an opening in the mountain and Camren collapsed on the floor. Dustin leaned against a wall catching his breath. Thrash just stood and began looking around “now let’s find that dragon,” he said with excitement. “Alright I’m good now,” said Dustin as they ventured deeper and deeper into the cave. “It’s getting dark, hand me a flashlight”. Said Thrash, Camren took off his pack and began feeling around for a flashlight “ah ha, oh wait no that’s a can of soda” said Camren,” “oh toss that over here,” said Thrash “I can’t see you, oh wait here is the flash light.” Camren turned on the flashlight and tossed it and the can of soda to Thrash. Thrash opened it and began drinking until it was empty. Thrash than threw the can in the air and hit it with his stick towards the entrance and let out a belch that echoed through the entire cave. “Well that was rather disturbing.” Said Dustin “why don’t you let me hold the flashlight?” he continued. “Ok” said Camren as he tossed the flashlight to Dustin. They resumed walking until they came to a large black statue of a dragon with a sword in its chest, it seemed to be made out of a strange black gem and towered to approximately 40 feet
“Whoa, look at the size of that thing.” said Thrash “I wonder who built it, and why here” said Camren. “Nobody built it, this is the dragon. From what I can tell the story says Thrash killed the dragon and than it turned,” said Dustin. “What do you mean by turned?” asked Thrash. “I didn’t get it either at first but now I understand, the dragon turned to a statue made of this strange black gem.” Said Dustin putting his hand on the dragon “onyx?” suggested Camren examining the statue. “No not onyx their emeralds, black emeralds” said Dustin. “I thought emeralds were green” said Thrash “yes these are emeralds, normally they are emerald colored Thrash but for some reason they are black. Though there is no mistaking it these are emeralds, and another thing these emeralds are surprisingly dense, in fact they are probably harder than diamonds!” Camren explained “incredible” said Dustin “so diamonds are not the strongest natural substance after all it’s these strange emeralds.” “Hey check this out” Thrash said standing next to the sword in the dragon. Thrash clutched the handle of the sword and pulled as hard as he could. The sword budged a little, he put his foot on the dragon and the sword slowly slid out knocking Thrash on his back when the tip was released. The sword was twice as long as Thrash expected, from handle to tip it reached about six feet and the blade was a foot wide of dense black metal. “Wow” Thrash said gleaming at the sword. He lifted it high above his head and brought it down on a stone, cutting it clean in half. “This is some sharp blade,” he said as he cut two slits in the back of his shirt and held it on his back. “This will have to work for now until I can get a sheath to match this bad boy.” Thrash said. He heard a sound and turned to see what it was. He saw only the statue, but to his astonishment it began to move! It turned around and blew fire at the three brothers. Thrash and Dustin jumped behind a column to avoid the flames. Camren stood like a deer in the headlights and took the full force of the blast. Thrash gasped but Dustin held him down and said, “Quiet or we’ll be next.” The dragon let out an enormous roar and flew out of the cave. Thrash got up and said “I swear dragon I will put this sword back in your heart and avenge my little brother”.
“Whoa, whoa you can’t just go after the dragon like that, he would kill you without even trying.” “Well I have to do something; I pulled the sword out so it is my duty to put it back. Plus we can’t let him get away with barbequing our beloved brother. And if we can’t go after him like this, than what do you suggest we do? We can’t let that thing go free” said Thrash. “I have heard legends of a secret order that might help us, the order of the Forbidden Darkness,” Said Dustin. “We can’t go to the Forbidden Darkness, it’s forbidden!” Thrash said shouting a bit and his voice echoed in the cave “I don’t see any other options” Dustin rebutted “fine then but do you even know where to find them?” asked Thrash “they are fabled to be on the top of a very large mountain. But the question is where do we find this mountain” said Dustin “this mountain seems pretty tall, I mean it took us like an hour to climb about half way,” Said Thrash. “Yeah that would make a lot of sense, this is definitely the biggest mountain I have ever seen,” Said Dustin. They walked out of the cave and began the long climb up the mountain.
Eventually they passed the clouds where there was a chill in the air, the sun to set as they began to see the top. It grew colder and colder until their skin became numb, but they continued up the mountain with only warm memories of their brother and the burning hatred for the Black Emerald Dragon keeping them going. After a grueling climb they reached the snowy peak of the mountain. “We should rest,” said Dustin breathing heavily. “No, we have to keep going and avenge Camren” Thrash said with a huff, he began walking but collapsed in the snow.